This paper aims to compare the usefulness of tax arrears and financial ratios in bankruptcy prediction. The analysis is based on the whole population of Estonian bankrupted and survived SMEs from 2013 to 2017. Logistic regression and multilayer perceptron are used as the prediction methods. The...

Despite the copious number of statistical failure prediction models described in the literature, testing of whether such methodologies work in practice is lacking. This paper examines the performance of the same companies with solvency for predicting bankruptcy and comparison in both models....